On Wednesday, December 30, 2015 at 9:25:01 PM UTC, Torsten Rüger wrote:
> Thanks Fred,
> 
> 
> strange to think there should be an error that can't be handled in rails. 
> Still, thanks for the answer, which i am unfortunately not sure i understand.

You could also handle via a rack middleware or by supplying a custom exception 
app (see 
http://guides.rubyonrails.org/configuring.html#rails-general-configuration)
> 
> 
> Are you saying i should have  a
> <Limit CONNECT>
> 
> 
> </Limit>
> 

Not sure - never done this, but this seems to be the mechanism Apache provides 
for filtering requests based on http method.

Fred


> On Tuesday, 29 December 2015 21:29:00 UTC+2, Frederick Cheung  wrote:On 
> Tuesday, December 29, 2015 at 6:13:52 PM UTC, Torsten Rüger wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> 
> > 
> 
> > 
> 
> > i've been getting the subject error for some while in production. 
> 
> > I've tried to find out what that connect even means with little avail. 
> 
> > But i was generally surprised how much hacking attempts are being made, so 
> > i'm pretty sure it's ill intent.
> 
> 
> 
> CONNECT is an http method used for proxies to allow tunnelling arbitrary 
> traffic through a proxy: basically someone has been scanning for 
> misconfigured proxies (and probably other stuff too). Just a fact of life 
> really.
> 
> > 
> 
> > 
> 
> > Just, i can't seems to get rid of the error. I tried to add rescue_from to 
> > my ApplicationController, as in:
> 
> > 
> 
> > 
> 
> > 
> 
> >   rescue_from ActionController::RoutingError, with: :error_404
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> > 
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> > 
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> 
> 
> This type of routing error can't be rescued like that since rails doesn't 
> know which controller should be used. If it bothers you then you could try 
> blocking it at the webserver level (eg 
> https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/core.html#limit)
> 
> 
> 
> Fred
> 
> 
> 
> > but that doesn't do it. The call goes from phusion through rack and rails, 
> > and ends in 
> 
> > actionpack-4.2.5/lib/action_dispatch/middleware/debug_exceptions.rb:21:in 
> > `call'
> 
> > 
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> > 
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> > 
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> > Has anyone encountered this in the wild ?
> 
> > 
> 
> > 
> 
> > Torsten

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